Old photograph of Rathburnie House in Longformacus in the Borders of Scotland. Alexander Christison was born in 1753, at Redpath House, Longformacus, Berwickshire. He was the eldest of seven children to a tenant sheep-farmer in the Lammermuir Hills. After a local education he began employment as the local schoolteacher for the parish of Edrom before attending the University of Edinburgh to study Classics, graduating in 1775. This background gave him access to teach at a higher calibre of school and he taught both at George Watson’s College, Dalkeith Grammar School and the High School in Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1800 his main proposer being the physician, James Gregory. He trained under John Hill at the University of Edinburgh and graduated MA in 1806, and from that date he served as Professor of Humanity at the University. He died in Edinburgh on 25 June 1820 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in the city centre.
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